my beer is in secondary with what looks to be a ****load of broken up hob debris floating on top and it's been 2 weeks, i can't bottle it because it will get sucked into the syphon, and i can't cold crash. This **** is bouyant as hell why wont it SINK!?
ok so it's day 12 of fermentation, i just racked to secondary and there is still what looks to be hop debris floating on top of the beer, will this settle out? yes it was there before i racked over.
ok so i tried to carbonate my cider by adding a 1tsp of sugar to my bottles after it sat in secondary for 2 weeks, was there not enough yeast left to carbonate?
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I went with the True Brew's german style light, only my 2nd batch. I changed a few things about the recipe and bought an additional 1oz pack of hallertau hops.
what i changed was the hopping schedule. so first for my...
i'm currently on day 5 for my german style extract boil kit and was wondering if hops should be floating to the top still there's this gunk and i'm not sure if it's trub or what that is floating around the the edges on top, but it smells hoppy.
I went with the True Brew's german style light, only my 2nd batch. I changed a few things about the recipe and bought an additional 1oz pack of hallertau hops.
what i changed was the hopping schedule. so first for my bittering instead of using the entire oz of cascade i used .6 cascade and .4...
i got my 5 gallon batch down to 76 degrees from boiling in 10 minutes by A: refrigerated water and B: ice. used 3 gallons of really cold distilled water and and some ice and cold water from the sink, took no time at all 15 minutes maximum...seriously. now it's sitting downstairs where it's...
ok so i got the boil going and i decided to go with .5 cascade and .5 hallautauer for bittering and at 35 min the rest of the hall hops and at 5 minutes the rest of the cascade